The Courage to Love: Principles and Practices of Self-Relations Psychotherapy

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Summary: A wonderfully insightful book for healing
Review: After you think you know what hypnotherapy is all about, this book will give you a larger perspective into ourselves and how the skills and concepts of hypnosis, aikido, and human sponsorship can help us.

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Summary: his voice will go with you
Review: I don't believe enough can be said about the high quality of this book. Obviously you have to be already within a certain frame of reference in order to jive with this material, but if you are somebody who practices counceling or therapy and who is interested in the landscape where depth psychology meets the art of brief therapy, I would invite you to go nuts about his materpiece.

Gilligan beautifully weaves his model of Self-Relations into a serious conversation as to the dynamic that exists between and within both the client and the therapist. He points to ways we can embody ourselves as we help our clients reembody their lives, finding the balance that allows them to gently touch their center.

This book can be a meditative read in which you dwell within certain sentences and let your wisdom open up and sneak out in surprising new ways.

It really is a masterpiece. But don't purchase this book if you are looking for a practical self-help book or a precise manual in applying psychotherapy in various clinical contexts...

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Summary: Theories to think about, learn, feel, and contemplate
Review: Stephen Gilligan is a loving, playful, and sometimes fierce therapist, who is highly skilled in what he does with clients, and in his teaching as well.He is also a tremendously talented hypnotherapist, and a pretty nice guy to boot!

I think that his book offers a great deal of wonderful ideas for people to contemplate and try out. I sometimes suggest it to my clients to read so that they have a clearer idea of how I am hoping to help them.You do not need to be a professional to get a lot out of this book.

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Summary: Useful only to the enlightened
Review: This book is very advanced. You have to be very enlightened in order to gain benefits from the book as the book is written in psychology, new age and Buddihist jargons. You will gain virtually nothing if you are not an expert in those fields.

I gave it one start is because I am largely a laymen and found little benefits from the book. However, if you are a guru in psychology, new age and Buddihism, you might rate this book 4 to 5 starts.